tabloids King Charles abdicates, Hollywood's most hated hunk, and Taylor Swift's engagement in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
1970s "Pickled People" were heads made out of stuffed panty hose and smushed into jars, and people in the 1970s bought them for fun Jennifer Sandlin
books New online class about mind-bending science fiction writer Philip K. Dick taught by the stars of PKD scholarship David Pescovitz
music After twenty-five years, this "mystery" X-Files song was finally identified and released in its entirety David Pescovitz
legal battles Los Angeles apartment owner battles fraudulent tenant in latest rental story nightmare Mark Frauenfelder
sesame street Ad transforms Oscar the Grouch into darling of the contemporary art world Jennifer Sandlin
animals Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary says goodbye to long-time "house turkey" Cornelius Jennifer Sandlin
black lives matter Alan Moore has been donating all his Watchmen money to Black Lives Matter Thom Dunn
climate change Smash Mouth wrote "All Star" to warn us about climate change & anti-intellectualism and we turned it into a meme Thom Dunn
myth busting Gustavo Arellano: Donkey Shows are a "wholesale gabacho invention that says more about how America projects its fevered perversions onto Mexicans and Mexico than anything about Mexicans themselves" Jennifer Sandlin
architecture Mark the 130th anniversary of the Chicago World's Fair by reading "The Devil in the White City" this summer Jennifer Sandlin
documentary New Milli Vanilli documentary looks at the rise and fall of the cancelled lip-syncing duo Rusty Blazenhoff